Police and Fire Departments Host Sept. 11 Remembrance

The Marblehead Police and Fire Departments are inviting residents to attend the annual September 11th remembrances on Friday.

As the fourteenth anniversary approaches, all are invited to attend the brief services at Memorial Park (opposite the National Grand Bank on Pleasant St) on Friday, September 11 beginning at 9:45 a.m.

Police and fire personnel, members of the clergy along with a bagpiper, bugler and bell ringer will be on hand to honor those who lost their lives, including those from Marblehead.

The town’s 9/11 monument, which is inscribed with the phrase “Never Forget,” honors the memory of the three Marblehead residents killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and and those who gave their lives in the subsequent War on Terror.

Frederick Rimmele, 32, who was a passenger onboard United Airlines Flight 175, was a local physician and worked at a hospital in Beverly. Also onboard Flight 175 was William Weems, a 46-year-old freelance commercial producer who lived in Marblehead.

In New York City, Erik Hans Isbrandtsen, a Marblehead native, was working on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center when a hijacked plane crashed into the building.